HB 1275 - AS INTRODUCED
2000 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 1275
AN ACT requiring school bus drivers to use all safety equipment on the bus or risk revocation of certificate.
SPONSORS: Rep. Larrabee, Merr 9
This bill requires school bus drivers to use all safety equipment on the bus or risk revocation of certificate.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2067
05/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT requiring school bus drivers to use all safety equipment on the bus or risk revocation of certificate.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Use of School Bus Safety Equipment. Amend RSA 263:29 to read as follows:
263:29 School Bus Driver's Certificate. The owner of any school bus transporting children to and from any private or public school, or the owner of any bus owned or used by a religious organization or a nonprofit organization used exclusively as a bus for the transportation of its members in connection with functions of the organization, shall submit to the authorities in the town or city or to the organization, shall submit to the authorities in the town or city or to the organization which pays for said transportation a list of names of the persons who are to drive the buses used in such transportation. Such authority shall submit the list of names to the department requesting an investigation of each driver's criminal and motor vehicle record. If such driver is found to be qualified to bear the responsibility of such transportation, the division shall cause said driver to be examined under the rules adopted pursuant to RSA 265:58. No person shall drive a school bus unless he has satisfactorily passed the special examination for said driving and received from the division a special school bus driver's certificate. The director may revoke such special school bus driver's certificate for good cause shown including failure to utilize all safety equipment aboard the vehicle.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.